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Auction: 5021 - France, Featuring the Château Ramezay Collection, Europe & O/seas & B. Empire
Lot: 4095

x Turks Islands 1842 (10 June) entire to London, rated "1/-" and showing, on reverse, manuscript "Turks Islds"; scarce. Photo Estimate £ 400-500Note: In January 1842 the R.M.S.P. Co. established a bi-monthly West Indies mail service using Grang Turk as the distribution point for its branch services. The service was discontinued in October of the same year because of the generally unsuitable conditions in the anchorage. No Post Office was opened in Grand Turk until 11 December 1854. The manuscript marking on the above lot was written on letters in transit and sorted at Grand Turk. provenance: Morris H. Ludington, 1999

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